Timetable: MCRR - Caro Branch - Vassar to Owendale

This was a branch line northeast from the MC Detroit to Bay City line. Station hours are from 1947.

Station MP from Vassar Notes
Vassr  0.0  DN P32
Caro Junction  0.4  D J 
Bank Sand     
Watrousville  5.4  P9 
Ross's Crossing  7.0   
Wahjamega  9.4  P19 
Caro xDBC&W 13.0  D X P19 EL 
Atwood     
Purdy     
Hutchinson     
Colling  22.1   
Duro     
Ashmore     
Bach  28.1   
Patton     
Owendale   
     

Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Engine house | EL=Elevator | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Lift bridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swing bridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

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MC Caro Branch Timetable

Image info: A timetable from the Official Guide in 1910 of the Michigan Central's Caro Branch from Vassar to Owendale via Caro. The branch had four trains each way per day, though only two went west of Caro to Owendale.


Notes


Time Line

1887. The MC is laying steel rails on the Caro branch, and the road bed is to be reballasted. An official has predicted the extension of the line to Cass City within a year. [PHTH-1887-0717

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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